essay
Religion and ritual in Lukang
Religion and ritual in Chinese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 43-69
By: DeGlopper, Donald R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay contains an explanation why the town of Lukang displays a greater proliferation of temples and more conservative 'style' of public ritual than other localities in Taiwan. DeGlopper views neighborhood temples as providing Lukang residents with the most effective means for asserting communal solidarity in the absence of meaningful social ties other than those produced by residential propinquity. Popular religious belief and practice, which in Taiwan presents an apparently bewildering variety of forms, are made comprehensible for Lukang by noting the town's specific social history and current peripheral status in the island's political economy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sacred objects and places
- Ritual
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus; Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lukang city, Changhua hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald R. DeGlopper
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese